Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-23
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

Tho price OF bar silver in New York yes
terday was 99B.
See notice to Postoffice box-renters IN
der "Ne. To-Day"
The Pacific Express yesterday sn1Ppee
ten bars of Moulton. valued at Slo''l|.
MI. Julian Smith has gone over on 'n'
Montana Central to take q CONTRACT -
furnish timber for bridge work.
The straw widowers o at the st. Men
olas have secured a table at the note'
which they occupy exclusively.
E. NJ. Conard has taken a position IN Dr
Averill's Dental Laboratory over SANDS q
Boyce. corner Main and Broadway.
The annual election OF School DISTRICT
No. 1. for one Trustee takes place at tne
Central School building next Saturday.
Owing to the high water at ManTan teie'
ora nh communication with the East is in
terrupted and the service so deranged that
our usual budget OF Eastern news Isl u Oh.
The Emmet Guard Band paraded the
| streets last evening in their new uniforms
bv the light oftorches and played a selection
| oil light marching airs as they passed.
The following members Of the sporting
fraternity left for Chicago on yesterday
evenings train: James Johnson, Fred lie
| PAUL., joe Satterlee and Chas. Ingleson.
F. N. Trask was elected President and
Jonn H. Curtis Secretary and Treasurer OF
the Straw Widowers' Club at the St. Mich
olas. They hold meetings three times a
week.
Constable Morsehead visited Burlington
Yesterday and was surprised at'henurnber
of moss agates in circulation. The d'scov-
cry of a rich moss agate mine is currently
reported.
A rumOr on the streets last night was
current that q man working in a mine or
the slope next the Alice had been severely
hurt bv the fall of soft dirt. His life was
despaired OF.
Last summer John Kendall, of Anacon-
da, went to California to endeavor to re-
gain his health, which was fast failing him
from consumption. 1t was. however. nf
no avail. for YESTERDAY he died Of consnmp-
ton and will be buried to-day at Ana
conda. =
Died-ln Butte, N. T., March p, 1887.
Rirhard Cross, a native OF Cornwall. Eng
land, aged "a years. Funeral will take
place from the Odd Fellows Hall by the
A. o. F.. at 2 o'clock p. m. to-day. Mem
beers of the Ancient Order of Foresters and
friends of the deceased are respectfully in
vited to attend.
LICK WllllamS, n miner IN tne due nt'u.
met with a severe accident yesterday,
which may prove fatal. He was sticking
his candle into a post, and the stuff fell
into a box of caps he was carrying in bis
left hand and exploded it, tearing open his
left breast and cutting his arm. The
wound is very dangerous, and may prove
fatal.
Messrs. Campbell & Duffy received a tele-
gram from Messrs. Brirtnn Il Ray. the at.
torneys in Washington who are atten ing
&c the Harding case for them, stating that
thu Supreme Court had refused to grant a
haheaS corpus in that case. Mr.. Duffy is in
Helena to interview the Governor to grant
a respite to enable Messrs. c. & D. to take
the case back to the Supreme Court on
writ OF error.
A petition has been circulated among
freeholders. and largely signed. to be pre-
scented to the Council at its next meeting.
to enlarge the boundaries and INCORPORATE
under the act passed at the recent session
OF the legislature. AS stated by an in
formant of The MINER. who is a promi-
nsnt real estate dealer, the limits On the
north will be at the Acquisition mine; on
the west the limit crosses Missoula Gulch:
on the south the old limits are retained.
with TIE addition of a strip extending
nearly to the depot; ard ON the east i,
takes in the Hesperus lode, and includes
Foster & Legget's addition, comes back On
the northeast corner and takes in the
north line of the Blue Jay lode.